New Madrid County, MO
The federal environmental record for New Madrid County (population 15,424): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
0
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
5
TRI facilities
12
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving New Madrid reported a PFAS detection in the UCMR5 national testing round. Systems serving under 3,300 people were only sampled in part, so absence from this table is not proof of absence in the water.
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
5 facilities in New Madrid filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 1.2M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASSOCIATED ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC NEW MADRID POWER PLANT | MARSTON | Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)), Hydrogen fluoride | 1.2M lb |
| MAGNITUDE 7 METALS LLC | MARSTON | Carbonyl sulfide, Hydrogen fluoride | 30k lb |
| SRG GLOBAL PORTAGEVILLE | PORTAGEVILLE | Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region), Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 29k lb |
| HEARTLAND ASPHALT MATERIALS | NEW MADRID | Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 125 lb |
| CARLISLE CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS LLC | SIKESTON | Diisocyanates | 10 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 75 tank facilities in New Madrid: 47 tanks in service and 159 closed. 35 fuel releases are on record, of which 12 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps New Madrid as Zone 3, the lowest predicted indoor radon (under 2 pCi/L average). Radon and air quality are covered in depth on lung.com.
The record for one specific address
County figures blur what matters: distance. The Address Environmental Report runs these same federal datasets against one address and reports every site, tank, polluter and water result around it, with distances, in about a minute.
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